The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 6
A voice came from within and asked her, ‘Where do you come from, and where do you want to go?’
Who acts: voice, you · What happens: come, ask, want, go · To what, where: voice
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 voice | det |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 came | obl |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 from | fixed |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 come | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 want | cc |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 want | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 want | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 want | nsubj |
| 21 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 want | xcomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a voice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a voice not said here | voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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